The actress Portia de Rossi came perilously close to being a casualty of that delusion, and her compellingly honest memoir, “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain,” is a candid account of the toll a tyrannical body image can exact. One that still contaminates our body-obsessed popular culture is the Duchess of Windsor’s notorious admonition that no woman can ever be “too rich or too thin.”Īs the age of anorexia has succeeded the age of anxiety - or perhaps simply compounded it - we’ve learned just how wrong the duchess really was.
Some remarks, like radioactive elements, have a lingering half-life that allows them to poison one generation after another.
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